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the following is putatively based on bbc radio broadcast from 2007 that is no longer available. This cannot be verified so I am moving it here, per WP:PRESERVE
Personal details
Raymond Iles was born in Barnes, London, as Raymond Kruse. His father died in 1967; his and his brother's names were subsequently changed by deed poll to Kruse Iles to reflect their mother’s remarriage. His genetic family traces back to immigration of Germans and Danes from Schleswig-Holstein to the UK and London in particular, at the time of the Schleswig-Holstein War of 1850 and Bismarck’s campaign to unite the German states in the Reich. The Kruses were cabinetmakers, settling in Huntley Street behind Tottenham Court Road. Ray (Kruse) Iles’s tracing of his German cabinet-making ancestors resulted in his discovery that the British Olympic Fencing competitor - Richard Kruse - was his direct cousin. This was confirmed by Y chromosome genetic marker testing and featured on the BBC Radio 4 programme Tracing Your Roots.[1]
